Re: Why are Census Images I've had long attached to People now requiring subscription to view?!
Don't be an intentional idiot. No, I expect the newspaper to come collect all their proof of incompetent journalism. You might guess I don't subscribe.
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Re: Why are Census Images I've had long attached to People now requiring subscription to view?!
No I'm not. I am paying to use their online tree building software and access their databases. I no more expect the image records to be stripped from my online tree than my offline tree.
Why people think they can deny the truth and defend the frivolously greedy behavior of ancestry.com is beyond me.
And take note: that information is not ancestry's. It is public domain. Others will come along and digitize it and ruin ancestry's business model. It's already happening.
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Re: Why are Census Images I've had long attached to People now requiring subscription to view?!
The online tree-building software is FREE to all. The access to databases is what you paid for.
Name calling will not change the facts.
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Re: Why are Census Images I've had long attached to People now requiring subscription to view?!
Yes it does, because it punishes paying customers who have no motive to subscribe without access to the best trees, which often do get privatized and removed once a certain level of completeness and correctness has been reached.
And many of them know that as so they privatize. It's that old tit-for-tat concept.
But it's clear to any genealogist that's worth the term genealogist and it's clear to any programmer whose job is to help the end user that these online trees on ancestry should be including the records images as standard operating procedure for a genealogical professional. The ideal that a famous rich person would pay big bucks to have a family tree created for themselves online and then be told once it's done, they need to continue to pay each month to continue to view their tree is ridiculous. We are continually told to keep our data online to protect against data loss but oh, by the way you must pay extra money after your research is done to view your work.
The don't stay in business trying to force customers that have completed their work to continue to pay for having completed past work but by getting new customers. If you fail that your business is failing anyway. Simple economics.
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Re: Why are Census Images I've had long attached to People now requiring subscription to view?!
The online software is not free but subsidized, quite heavily in fact, and you pretending to be obtuse won't change that either.
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Re: Why are Census Images I've had long attached to People now requiring subscription to view?!
Yes, I know anonymous poster, you are whining so now stop. You've lost the argument as soon as you have to use meme gifs. Ancestry.com made business decisions detrimental to good professional genealogy and it's whining to dispute that.
And same as three years ago if you try to point out logical truth rather than blinkered worship in these forums the trolls come out of the woodwork.
Enough of that.
I've got to pay $20 - $60 the next 3 months and manually straighten out the inclusion of my reference research and validating records and get that information into Gramps, LDS, and FTDNA. Something the Ancestry.com can't deceive anyone with a balanced agenda into believing they didn't know better than to create all those broken trees in the design phase.
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Re: Why are Census Images I've had long attached to People now requiring subscription to view?!
You have interesting expectations.
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Re: Why are Census Images I've had long attached to People now requiring subscription to view?!
I'd call them interesting delusions.
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Re: Why are Census Images I've had long attached to People now requiring subscription to view?!
I know, these days people don't read the TOS before they click yes, but no one has ever stopped a person from downloading, say, a census image to your computer and then attaching to your online tree. I started by actually doing that and then figured it was so much easier to use FTM. Right now I probably can't read images on the Canadian half of my tree.
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